Psalms 141

1 Lord, I have made my cry to you; come to me quickly; give ear to my voice, when it goes up to you.

1A Psalm, by David. O Jehovah, I have called Thee, haste to me, Give ear <FI>to<Fi> my voice when I call to Thee.

1 Jehovah, I have called upon thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I call unto thee.

2Let my prayer be ordered before you like a sweet smell; and let the lifting up of my hands be like the evening offering.

2My prayer is prepared--incense before Thee, The lifting up of my hands--the evening present.

2 Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense, the lifting up of my hands as the evening oblation.

3O Lord, keep a watch over my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

3Set, O Jehovah, a watch for my mouth, Watch Thou over the door of my lips.

3 Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

4Keep my heart from desiring any evil thing, or from taking part in the sins of the evil-doers with men who do wrong: and let me have no part in their good things.

4Incline not my heart to an evil thing, To do habitually actions in wickedness, With men working iniquity, Yea, I eat not of their pleasant things.

4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise deeds of wickedness with men that are workers of iniquity; and let me not eat of their dainties.

5Let the upright give me punishment; and let the god-fearing man put me in the right way; but I will not let the oil of sinners come on my head: when they do evil I will give myself to prayer.

5The righteous doth beat me <FI>in<Fi> kindness. And doth reprove me, Oil of the head my head disalloweth not, For still my prayer <FI>is<Fi> about their vexations.

5 Let the righteous smite me, it is kindness; and let him reprove me, it is an excellent oil which my head shall not refuse: for yet my prayer also is [for them] in their calamities.

6When destruction comes to their judges by the side of the rock, they will give ear to my words, for they are sweet.

6Their judges have been released by the sides of a rock, And they have heard my sayings, For they have been pleasant.

6 When their judges are thrown down from the rocks, they shall hear my words, for they are sweet.

7Our bones are broken up at the mouth of the underworld, as the earth is broken by the plough.

7As one tilling and ripping up in the land, Have our bones been scattered at the command of Saul.

7 Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol, as when one cutteth and cleaveth [wood] upon the earth.

8But my eyes are turned to you, O Lord God: my hope is in you; let not my soul be given up to death.

8But to Thee, O Jehovah, my Lord, <FI>are<Fi> mine eyes, In Thee I have trusted, Make not bare my soul.

8 For unto thee, Jehovah, Lord, are mine eyes; in thee do I trust: leave not my soul destitute.

9Keep me from the net which they have put down for me, and from the designs of the workers of evil.

9Keep me from the gin they laid for me, Even snares of workers of iniquity.

9 Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, and from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

10Let the sinners be taken in the nets which they themselves have put down, while I go free.

10The wicked fall in their nets together, till I pass over!

10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal pass over.